Fishing-reel.



PATENTED FEB. '7, 1905.

A. E. & W. H. LBAVER.

FISHING REEL.

APPLICATION rum) JAH.26.'1904.

T m V V Patented February '7, 1905.

TJNTTED STATES PATENT @rmcn.

ALBERT E. LEAVER AND \VILLIAM H. LEAVEH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FlSHlNG-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,776, dated February 7, 1905,

Application filed January 25, 1904. Serial No. 190,540.

To a whom it may con/(30772,:

Be it known that we, ALBERT E. Lnavnn and VILLIAM. H. Lnxvna, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fishing-Reels, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates particularly to mechanism for throwing the reel proper of a lishing-reel out of gear with the winding-crank or the pinions actuated thereby, and has for its object to produce an improved mechanism dicated as follows: 6 is the reel proper, mountl ed to rotate between the side plates 7 of the frame. is the cap or casing which incloses the gearwheels of the windingmechanism, and it) is the cam-wheel for operating the guidingarm 8.

The parts of thedevice specifically included in our invention are indicated as follows: 10 is a pinion fast upon the spindle 1 l of the reel.

8 is the guiding-arm for the line. 5)

This pinion is in mesh with a pinion 12, which 5 serviceable device for the purpose intended.

is rotatable on a screw-stud 13, by which said pinion is supported on a swinging plate ll.

This plate is pivoted by a screw-stud 15 upon the side plate T, and said stud also forms the 1 spindle of apinion 16, which is inmesh with the pinion 12 and also with a spur-wheel IT, which and geared to the crank, and a thumb-piece is fast on the shaft of the winding-crank- 18,

said shaft being extended through the cap in 1 In the free end of the l l This block is lixed to a stud or projection which extends through the side plate 7 from a sleeve 21, which is sleeved over one of the brace-rods which space and hold the side plates 7 of the frame. S id sleeve has a lim ited trrning movement on the rod, the extent of such movement being limited by a pin 22:3, which projects from the rod A into a slot 25, produced in the sleeve. Said sleeve is also pi ovidcd with a wing or thumb-piece 26, whereby it may be turned by the pressure thereon of the operators thumb. The spring 27, lixed at one end to the side plate and bearing at its free end in a notch 2b in the block 20, acts to normally lift the thmnb-piece and throw the plate It so that the gears ill and 12 are in mesh.

In use the gears are normally in engagement by reason of the spring, as above stated. ll'hen it is desired to throw the reel out of gear, as in casting, the tlm1i1l.)-piece is pressed with sulticicnt force to turn the sleeve, which causes the end of the linger ill to travel in the curved slot HS and causes the plate ll to swing on its pivot, disengaging the pinions ll) and 12, as indicated in Fig. 2). The wheel will then run free, in which connection it is to be noticed that the position of the thumbpiece is such that the thumb may be readily pressed on the lineto act as a brake when desired.

The construction whereby the movement of the plate H is effected is simple and not apt to get out of order and acts quickly to produce the result desired. It can be manipulated entirely with one hand and forms a very \Yhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with a reel-pinion, and a wimling-cran k, of a swinging slotted plate, a pinion thereon meshing with the reel-pinion having a linger extending into the slot and movable to swing the plate to disengage the pinions.

2. The combination with a frame having side plates, of a reel-pinion, a slotted plate In testimony whereof we have signed our pivoted to one of the side plates, a w1ncl1ngnames to this specification in the presence of IO crank, a train of pinions between the crank two subscribing witnesses.

and the reel-pinion, one of said train being ALBERT E. LEAVER. 5 mounted on the plate to swing therewith to WVILLIAM H. LEAVER.

disengage the pinions, and a, turning thumb- \Vitnesses: piece located between the plates and having SIGNA FELTSKOG, a finger extending into the slot of the plate. H. G. BATCHELOR. 

